FOUR APPLICATIONS HEARD

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 232, 28 June 1945, Page 8

FOUR APPLICATIONS HEARD

Release Of Defaulters

Dominion Special Service.

PALMERSTON N., June 27.

Four applications for release ou parole from defaulters’ detention camps were heard today by the No. 2 Revision Authority, decisions being reserved in eaeh instance. Mr. W. 11. Woodward presided and .Mr. J. A. Duffy was the Crown representative. Considerable public interest was evinced, the seating accommodation being fully taxed, and many persons bad to stand. The applications were by Ronald Colverley Megget, Dunedin, Arthur Tom Winston Sharp, Palmerston North, Wilfred Edward Holmes. I’etonc. and Walter Robert Dearsly, Wanganui. FOUR AUCKLAND CASES (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 27. The appeals of four men in defaulters' camps were dealt with by the revision authority today, all of them being men who based their applications on religious beliefs. Only oue of the applicants was represented by counsel, the others conducting their own cases and calling evidence regarding their religious background and sincerity. Questions put to the applicants dealt mainly with their religious views, the period of their church membership, their views on noncombatant service, and their possible reactions to acts of violence imposed on them and their kith and kin by the enemy.

Decisions were reserved in nil cases.